November 9th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Pumped hydro is a highly viable storage technology, it overlaps nicely with the characteristics of Tesla's existing battery technology, the Boring Company has high-speed tunneling equipment suitable for penstocks and there are a lot of excellent coal miners who could be repurposed close to home in the United States
October 31st, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla is now selling Powerwalls practically at cost in certain regions in response to California's devastating fires
October 23rd, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Thanks to some work by Rainforest Action Network and The Guardian, as well as a post from a member of a Tesla forum, I recently wrote an article highlighting that the #1 fossil fuel development financier happens to also be an extreme Tesla [TSLA] bear
October 9th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Solar Power International landed in Salt Lake City, Utah this year and CleanTechnica was on the ground meeting with the change makers, the disruptors, the doers, the movers, and the shakers. We've been diving into some of the companies we talked with, but having covered SPI for several years now, we wanted to highlight one of the newer arrivals at the show: electric vehicles
October 7th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Miami-Dade is taking a big first step into the electrified future with the purchase of 33 fully electric buses from Proterra. The agreement represents the largest purchase of electric buses to date on the east coast of the United States
October 4th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
We connected with Generac's Chief Marketing Officer and president of its new clean energy business, Russ Minick, at SPI 2019, to talk about its big pivot into energy storage products to learn more about where that strategy came from. Right off the bat, Russ said that Generac had been eyeing the residential energy storage market for quite some time, but until recently, felt that, "it wasn't worth the diversion of focus."
September 29th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
The following are the climate change solutions or approaches that I see from my investigations and discussions as gaining consensus and consilience on their viabiilty. It's not the how, but the what
September 28th, 2019 | by Danny Parker
As a researcher at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) in Cocoa, Florida, I’ve lived with hurricanes my entire professional career. Each year is like a bad lottery since Florida is a hurricane magnet. Given the paths of past hurricanes, there’s plenty of reason for concern. Living in the state in September suggests a shooting gallery experience — with these hits by major storms, but a lot of near misses
September 8th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Warren's climate plan is a progressive patriot's dream plan. Unions, supply management, the moonshot and WWII are all present. And jobs. Lots of jobs
September 4th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
While there is so much news about Tesla's vehicles, and sometimes its US rooftop solar business, it's easy to forget that Tesla continues to bring stable electricity to many parts of the world that rely on diesel or have unstable access to electricity
September 3rd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Dominion Energy Virginia has published a bullish plan to convert 50 school buses in its territory to electric buses by 2020. That's just the start, as the company plans to add 200 more per year to hit its target of 1,050 fully electric school buses by
August 27th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
A new community of apartments in Herriman, Utah is being built from the ground up with a next generation energy storage system thanks to 12.6 megawatt-hours of sonnen's ecoLinx battery systems. The new system will aggregate the energy storage and power output capabilities of 600 of sonnen's 20 kWh ecoLinx intelligent energy storage units installed across the community into a single virtual power plant
August 16th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The Tesla virtual power plant experiment in South Australia has been an overwhelming success. Soon it may be expanded from about 1,400 homes to 50,000 homes.
August 9th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Last month, Viv on Twitter gave us a beautiful visual reminder of the Tesla Master Plan, and showed us in the video how the plan is now actually in action and is working
August 5th, 2019 | by Tim Dixon
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our July 2019 edition
July 29th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Less than two years ago, Tesla built and installed the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Hornsdale, South Australia, using Tesla Powerpack batteries. Since then, the facility saved nearly $40 million in its first year alone and helped to stabilize and balance the region’s unreliable grid
July 29th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
New Green Deal meets old New Deal with new triple-hybrid renewable energy project for Oklahoma rural electric cooperative
July 25th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology report improved performance of sodium ion batteries by using copper sulfide electrodes. A five year useful life is now possible, they say.
July 24th, 2019 | by Chanan Bos
Tesla has a record number of deliveries this quarter and left all of Wall Street scratching their heads. What now [&hellip
July 24th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The $1 billion Gordon Butte pumped hydro project will add 400 MW of energy storage to the Pacific Northwest. Construction will begin in 2020.
